He stood up without disturbing Jiang Xuelan who was meditating, lifted the curtain, and walked up the stone steps towards the cave of the Old Man of the Underworld.
The Old Man from the Underworld seemed to be used to David visiting at any time.
He was still sitting on that black stone bench, a thin black pipe tucked between his wrinkled fingers, a faint blue flame burning within the pipe, giving off a cool and refreshing aroma.
Seeing David coming in, he slightly raised his eyelids and said hoarsely, “Young friend Chen, what is up so late at night?”
“Senior, I encountered some problems when I was refining that Yin energy.”
David sat opposite him and described a wisp of unrefined power in his dantian: “That power does not belong to yin energy, nor is it devil energy. I can’t purify it, nor can I expel it. I wrapped it in chaos power seven times, but it escaped every time.”
The old man’s forehead twitched slightly. He did not answer immediately, but instead placed his pipe on his lap, his dark blue gaze fixed on David for a moment: “Let this old man take a look.”
David nodded, gathered his chaotic power, and let the wisps of power in his dantian overflow naturally.
The old man from the underworld raised his gnarled finger, and a ghostly blue flame condensed at the tip of his finger, which he gently touched between David’s eyebrows.
A wisp of magical fire flowed into David’s dantian along his meridians, like a dark blue beam of light shining into the deep, dark water, precisely capturing the wandering power.
A moment later, the old man withdrew his finger, a complex light flashing in his dark blue eyes: “The power within you is neither yin energy nor devil energy. It belongs to the water race.”
David’s brow furrowed sharply: “Water creatures?”
“Deep within the Void Sea, there lived an ancient race who called themselves the Water Clan.”
The old man’s voice was hoarse and deep, like bubbles rising from deep water: “They were born to live in harmony with water and deeply understand all the laws related to water.”
Their power was extremely unique—soft, subtle, and all-pervasive, like flowing water that could not be forcibly restricted or purified. The power within you is the ultimate power of the aquatic race.
A glimmer of surprise flashed in David’s eyes: “How could the power of the water race appear in the yin energy of that crack?”
The old man from the underworld shook his head: “I don’t know either. But I can tell you one thing—the water race is not a native race of the heavenly realm. They came from outside the heavenly realm.”
David shrugged his shoulders slightly: “Beyond the Heavenly Realm?”
“A long time ago, a sage from the celestial realm left the celestial realm and wandered the universe. He wandered in the endless sea of stars for ten thousand years, and in a remote star cluster, he encountered a race of aquatic creatures.”
The old man’s voice sounded ancient and hoarse, as if he was turning the pages of an ancient book. “The saint fell in love with a girl from the Water Tribe, but the Water Tribe did not allow its citizens to marry outsiders, so the saint took the girl from the Water Tribe and fled back to the Celestial Realm.”
David did not interrupt, but listened quietly.
“The tribes of the waters sent pursuers, who pursued them to the heavenly realm.”
The old man from the underworld continued, “But the Celestial Realm has strict legal restrictions, and the pursuers from the water world cannot enter on a large scale; they can only send a small number of elite troops.”
After these pursuers entered the Celestial Realm, due to the conflict between the laws of the Celestial Realm and the laws of the outer realm, they were unable to leave or return to their homeland. Therefore, they remained in the Heavenly Realm, looking for a suitable place to survive.
“Void Sea?”
“That’s right.”
The old man nodded. “The aquatic environment of the Void Sea is very similar to their homeland. They established settlements deep within the Void Sea, and after tens of thousands of years of reproduction, they have become the aquatic race we know today.”
David was silent for a moment: “They can’t leave the Void Sea?”
“Once they leave the water, the laws of the heavens will start to suppress their bodies.”
The old man from the underworld said, “Their strength will quickly disappear, and their bodies will slowly rot. Because of this, aquatic creatures rarely set foot on land, and even when they occasionally appear on the coast, they will not dare to go too far inland.”
This is why you stayed in the Underworld Abyss for so long and have never seen any aquatic creatures.
David looked down at his palms, his purple eyes sparkling with contemplation.
Why was the water creature’s power absorbed by him from the yin energy within the gap?
What was the relationship between the demon soul deep within the rift and the water creatures?
FAQ Novel
Q: What is David doing at the start of the chapter?
A: David is meditating in a cave, purifying absorbed Yin energy using his Mind Concentration Technique.
Q: What unusual problem does David encounter during purification?
A: He discovers a weak but incredibly persistent unknown power within the Yin energy that defies his Chaos Fire and purification attempts.
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